Bobby Bonds

The Manny Effect is like the Bush Doctrine. Impossible to define, but we all understand it. Or so we think. Like the Bush Doctrine, the Manny Effect is bane of East Coast journalists. In particular, it makes East Coast sportswriters even grumpier and causes their biting dismissal of Angelenos as lacking baseball sophistication. As if! Just when Dodger baseball is the existential core of post-meltdown Los Angeles. There is a liminal moment when one is poised between “infected” and “not exactly sure.

The Manny Effect is like the Bush Doctrine. Impossible to define, but we all understand it. Or so we think. Like the Bush Doctrine, the Manny Effect is bane of East Coast journalists. In particular, it makes East Coast sportswriters even grumpier and causes their biting dismissal of Angelenos as lacking baseball sophistication. As if! Just when Dodger baseball is the existential core of post-meltdown Los Angeles. There is a liminal moment when one is poised between “infected” and “not exactly sure.